Box-fastener.



No. 693,489. A rammed Femm-|962.'

A. c. nENcKLE a w. A. Ansia'.

Box FA'sTEnEn, (Applicatign lad Apr. 15, 1901.)

l '(No Model.)

'NITED STATES 'are Genion.

ARTHUR C. BRENCK/LE AND VALTER A. ANGER, OF MILVAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BOX-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,489, dated February 18, 1902.

Application filed April 15,1901.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we,AR'rHUn C. BRENGKLE and WALTER A. ANGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Fastening Devices; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Ourinvention has especial reference to fastenings designed for boxes containing bot' tled goods, though not necessarily confined thereto; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure l is a transverse vertical sectional view through a box equipped with our said invention, taken on the line l l of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through such box, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig., 1.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the box, and B the cover thereof, hinged, as shown at b, to the top of the box anddesigned to come ,Iiush with the vertical walls of the said box. `The front wall of the box is formed with an opening or hand-hole o therein of sufficient size to admit the passage therethrough of ones fingers.

v C is a block secured to the front inner surface of the cover B, so as to be adjacent to the opening c when'the cover is closed, and D is a catch secured to and depending from said Ablock, this catch in its preferred form consistingof a doubled strap of metal constituting a vertically-arranged loop, and it is obvious that, if preferred, the said catch may be secured directly to the cover itself instead of to the block C, as shown. y E is a latch having a spring-shank @,Whos lower end is secured to the inner side of the front wall of the box, as ,by the clenched nails f f Aor by screws or otherwise, the latch E engaging with the aforesaid catch D, as shown, this-'latch having a transverse perforation g therethrough, which when the latch and catch are in engagement is in line with perfora- ,tions d d in the said catch D.

F is a seal of ordinary construction con- Serial No. 55,841. (No model.)

and latch and then secured to the seal, so that when once secured the box cannot be opened without breaking the seal or the box itself,

thus guarding against tampering with the box or its contents. The seal can be readily reached to be cut by the recipient of the goods through the opening c, and similarly when the box is closed the seal can be adjusted through said opening, and after theseal is removed the latch and catch will operate as before, one great advantage lying in the fact that the fastening is always within the box itself, and to unlatch the device it is only necessary to push a finger through the opening c against thelatch-shank e, while the latching of the devcce is automatic on the closing of the cover B, as the catch D will slide down over the inclined front edge of the latch E and push -it back till the base of the catch D comes below the base of the latch F.,when'the spring-shank e will force the latch forward to the position shown in Fig. l,\thus completing the engagement of the latch and catch. Hence with our device the cover will always stay shut in latch engagement with the catch when the box is closed.

Our device is extremely simple and very economical in manufacture and can ber readily applied to existing boxes as wellas to new ones, and boxes fitted with our fastening device may be packed very closely together, as the said fasteners are always within the boxes,

which is an additional'measure of safety in transportation. l

Having thus described ourinvention, what we claim as new, and vdesire to-secure by Letters Patent, is-. l

l. The combination with a box having a 2. The combination with a box, having a cover hinged to the rear Wall thereof, and the front Wall of said box being formed with a wholly open hand hole extending therethrough, of a doubled metallic strap, forming an open-loop catch, secured to and pro j eeting vertically from the said cover, at a point back of said front wall, and the said loop-straps having transverse perforations therethrough; a latch comprising a beveled head with a transverse perforation therethrough, and a spring-shank secured to the inner side of the front wall of the box and projecting upward and backward for engagement with said loopcatch, and a Wire seal passed through the registerin g transverse openings in the loop-straps and latch-head, the latch, catch and seal being all Within the box, back of the hand-hole, but accessible therethrough.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands,at Milwaukee, in the eountyof Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence ol' two Witnesses.

ARTHUR C. BRENCKLE. XVALTER A. ANGER. Witnesses:

H. G. UNnnRWoon, B. C, RoLoFF. 

